Book Review: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
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Hiraide, Lydia Ayame. 2021. Book Review: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett. LSE Review of Books, [Article]
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In Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett explores how African American writers have forged a tradition that works through the figure of the non-human animal in order to assert and enact radical challenges to oppressive structures, contesting the violence of anthropocentrism and antiblackness and providing tools for conceiving of interspecies relationships anew. Carefully constructed with a lyrical lilt to its sharp analyses, this book is an important contribution to the emerging space in which black literary studies, animality studies and ecocriticism converge.
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race, racism, ecocriticism, literary studies, US, violence |
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30545 |
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28 Sep 2021 12:49 |
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28 Sep 2021 12:53 |
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